The Present of Home Coming

Sun Myung MoonJuly 3, 1988BelvedereTranslator: Sang
Kil Han

All
of the True Family, except Ye Jin Nim's two sons, were present for
Sun Jin Nim's birthday celebration on July 11, 1988. Back row: (left
to right) Jin Sung Nim, Jin Hun Nim, Kook Jin Nim, Kwon Jin Nim, Hyun
Jin Nim, Hyo Jin Nim with Shin Young Nim, Father, Sun Jin Nim,
Mother, Jin Whi Nim, Ye Jin Nim with Shin Hwa Nim, In Jin Nim, Nan
Sook Nim with Shin Gil Nim, Hoon Sook Nim, Jun Sook Nim with Shin Won
Nim, Un Jin Nim. Front row Young Jin Nim, Hyung Jin Nim, Yeon Jin
Nim, Jeung Jin Nim, Shin Jung Nim, Shin Myung Nim. This family
portrait was taken in the solarium at East Garden. The room was
designed by a famous Japanese landscape artist to include the natural
rock formation seen behind and to the right. This is the first time a
preexisting formation was included in the building of a room. In the
spring it is covered with flowers. There is a waterfall and pool with
carp in it around the edges of the room. The wall painting on the
left was done by Mr. Wabe.

We know that God cannot live in or with a fallen world. An
agnostic who does not know about the fall or whether or not God
exists simply cannot understand why the world is as it is. The fact
that man fell means the roadway to the perfection of a man was cut
off. Mankind who was born out of absolute and eternal God was
supposed to have these same properties, but we have not been able to
reach that original value. The world also has lost all its value. No
matter how hard any human being has tried, male or female, rich or
poor, beautiful or handsome, no one could fulfill his original value.

Hell had to come into existence to accommodate people of low
value. Imagine you are a hard-working farmer and your cabbage has
been eaten by worms. The cabbage is simply not even presentable, let
alone able to be sold. The only thing you can do with it is throw it
away in the wastebasket.

What is the original value that God wanted to give every human
being? God created man to become mature, to become a fruit of true
love. Each person is supposed to be a representative of the rest of
mankind. As we see, even though he is fallen, man tries to find value
by excelling in different ways. But ultimately we were supposed to
fulfill God's ideal for a true human being. Suppose you have a
choice: You can have a lot of money, power, or knowledge, and you can
represent man in these kinds of ways. But if you are given the
choice, would you rather have a woman, or would you rather have all
these mighty three things? (Woman!)

How about women? Do women love power, knowledge, and money just as
much as men? We will even throw beauty in for American women! Would
you choose these mighty four, or would you choose an ugly man? (Man!)
Then you see that both man and woman find in each other something
that has greater value than anything else in the universe. Actually,
when you think of it, it is so simple, but no one knows it!

Look at me, for example. The world may think, "Oh, Rev. Moon
has a great deal of wealth which he can use for all purposes. He has
such power that people will bow to him; and he has superb knowledge
which no institution ever teaches." But if I do not have a true
woman, the world would be bleak for me. Maybe that's because I am
Oriental! If I were a white or black man, would it be different? What
is it, then, that both man and woman are struggling to find? True
love. This is one way of explaining true love: True love is something
which both man and woman can appreciate eternally and cherish the
most. Even God, too. Do you want that true love to be changeable or
unchangeable? (Unchangeable!) Why? Because God is eternal, meaning
that He never changes. Therefore what He cherishes most has to be
like Him -- unchanging, eternal, and unique in each individual self.

Go Toward True Love

Then you ask, what is unchanging? As you know, knowledge is always
being updated. The value of money changes. And the way that power
exists also changes. In this ever-changing world, man is looking for
something which is not changing, even though he does not know what it
is. A person who does not know God is really very unfortunate, yet
everywhere we look, the world is full of these kind of people. We may
even tend to be affected by their skepticism and ignorance, but we
must resolve ourselves to jump to a much higher realm of
understanding -- the realm of true love.

Along with true love, we must have the right environment in which
to freely propagate and live true love. We must also have science,
good political systems, and a good economy, supplying the material
things we need. Yet, all the high religions have advised people to
stay single; or they encouraged people to forget about the world,
their families, their nations, and just pursue a religious goal.
Religion wanted to bring man into the place where it thought God
would want a man to be. Religion advised man not to get involved in
love, teaching that it would be a false love.

Now when I say go to your home town, that means go back to your
original position, which was centered on true love. When we go back
to our home, we want to bring true love -- a very precious gift which
cannot be bought anywhere in the universe. Every person can evaluate
themselves by this criteria: Am I going towards true love and living
with true love? How much? Then you decide yourself how valuable you
are.

Throughout history people have thought and talked about what is
good and what is bad, but nobody knew the definite standard. Now we
can say that those who are pursuing true love and trying to help
other people to maintain that direction as well, are righteous and
good. We call those who are going towards the goal of true love a
true husband and a true wife. How about True Parents? Same. Then how
about God? Until now we cannot call God true God, because if
everywhere people are far from true, then how can He be true all by
Himself? After the fall of man, God became a sorrowful God -- and
that is not the original God.

Six Categories

What then is true work? Working towards true love. What is true
study? Whoever will propagate, broaden, and maintain true love is
doing true study. What is a true human life? Actually the way of life
of a man who is true includes six categories: getting up and going to
bed; meeting and departing; and feeling good and feeling bad. So
simple, isn't it? You wake up with a determination to go the true
direction towards true love, and you go to bed wishing that as well.
You are happy when you are going toward true love, and unhappy when
you feel that you should do better in going towards that direction.
When you meet somebody, you are very hopeful that together you can go
in the direction of true love. When you part from each other, you
hope that you will go separately toward the same common goal. Then
you are living a true life.

How can this country prosper pursuing free sex and individualism?
Don't ever be confused anymore. For what have you been going out and
coming home every day? (True love) According to how you lived up to
that standard, are you true selves or false selves? Then we can
decide the world must be bad because it is not seeking true love. The
Moonies are a little better, but there are bad Moonies also. If you
are trying to decide whether politicians or politics in a country are
good or bad, you can ask: Are they working towards propagating true
love? We must remember this simple and universally applicable
criteria all our lives.

Those blessed couples who would welcome me into their home at any
time, day or night, whether I called before I came or not, raise your
hands. What if I came when husband and wife are making love? Is that
a wrong time, or would you say, "Father, any time is the right
time for you! You are welcome!" If a true man and a true woman
are engaged in true love, then nothing is shameful. It's something to
boast about and be proud of. All the universe will rejoice! Don't you
think even God can see through us, whether we have clothing on or
not?

If God wants to see the best of man and woman, and we say that's
true love, then what is true love and how is it achieved? The more of
your body that comes into contact with your spouse, the more
beautiful such union becomes. The most ideal union would be when
everything is so tight there is no space, like a ball. Sexual
intercourse between a true husband and wife is the state of true
love. Man 'and woman are ecstatic. Would God say, "Oh, that is
something unclean"? Think about it. This union which is meant to
be most valuable and beautiful is now regarded as most unclean and
most valueless, because of the fall. But originally, this was the
holiest of all holy things.

Represent Goodness

Women, would you rather have a husband who is common, ordinary,
and mediocre, but whom you can trust to be honest and have true love;
or would you like one who is handsome, and fashionable, with a lot of
money, knowledge, or power, but maybe he cheats a man or two
sometimes? You always know the right answer, but why can't you act it
all the time?! Trying and really acting is different. So many times I
heard Americans say, "I'll try!" Trying really should be
out. Don't try -- live! Those who do not act end up in hell.

You might think, "Father, I heard about true love a thousand
times but what has it got to do with me?" Yes, you have heard it
so often that every tit to something unusual happens, you think about
true love now. Even when you are constipated, you may somehow connect
it to true love! We should maintain this criteria based on true love
for eternity. In order for the true love church to propagate we must
have a true country, world and cosmos. After that comes liberation
for God and mankind. This is our inevitable course.

Every one of us has, without exception, a desire to represent the
rest of mankind. If there is an ambitious person who truly represents
true love, a true love family, and a true love country, and he wants
to be the highest in the entire world, he's not wrong. We all want to
become great, and we can, whether we are a farmer, a laborer, a
worker in a factory, a teacher at school, or a good politician, as
long as we actually represent man in a true way.

But there are so many ambitious people who don't want anything to
do with representing goodness. They want to be recognized as the
greatest because of money, or some other self-centered
accomplishment. However, that is false because all such a man thinks
about is himself. The person who doesn't want to represent the true
thing, but still wants to be recognized as the greatest, is arrogant.
What is the difference between being arrogant and being humble? When
someone represents all things in a true way, then he is great and
good. But if he does not truly represent everyone and he still wants
to be the greatest, that's bad.

I am trying to transform America into a good country. Can you call
someone truly great when he just wants to save good people and forget
about the bad people? If one is going to save good people and bad
people as well, he can become great. Why? Because true love embraces
everybody.

What kind of a representation would God want me to have when I go
to spirit world? To represent everyone past, present, and future
throughout history is obviously God's ideal.

If we all individually live as an example of true love, then we
live as a disciple of the Messiah. If one qualifies for heaven, he
goes there automatically. He doesn't need an invitation. If you live
like me, you will go to the same place as me, which is heaven.

How do you know that I have true love? America and the world have
acted like enemies to me, putting me in prison when I did not even
commit a crime. Why would I return to America in 1984, knowing that a
prison term was waiting for me? To save America and to save the
world. I thought to myself, "It's not me that matters; not even
Korea matters -- the whole world matters."

True love entails loving your enemy. Even while I was in Danbury,
I initiated six projects to help America. Similarly, when Jesus was
being crucified, he did not curse his enemy; because he was an
example of true love, he loved and blessed them instead. Even though
man turned his back against God, He doesn't turn against mankind.
There are three layers of heaven, three different steps of spirit
world. If we have an enemy here on earth, we cannot go to the
original heaven.

Man originally was set for a journey. Adam and Eve were to grow
toward love, anticipating love, really dreaming about true love.
Everything was dreaming about it -- including God and the universe,
and human beings started out their journey that way.

Would you rather be born in a presidential family, where you have
wealth and fame and power, or would you rather be born in a very poor
family which has true love? We are born in to a certain family to
establish, maintain, and protect true love in that particular family.
How worthwhile this is. The universe is shouting, "Yes, you are
born to protect the true love of the whole universe. Mansei!"
That means long prosperity.

Our Challenging Path

In search of true love we Unification Church members have
journeyed into the wilderness. If mankind hadn't fallen, God would
have protected us, centering on true love, no matter what. There
would be no way we would sin. Mankind was supposed to be born in that
kind of a true family, nation, and world, always protected, always
living in true love. That was the way we were supposed to go to
heaven without even trying. Now Unification Church members are going
through the wilderness, but our ultimate goal is to go to the true
heaven, our original homeland.

Are you confident that you can say to God when you go to spirit
world, "I brought a true friend who loves You and this friend of
mine represents all the good world"? God would like you to
report that about your life on earth. This is not just talking; to
bring a friend who is true is very difficult. Religious life itself
is very difficult to live. To become a true spouse and to raise up
true children is even more difficult. If creating a true family is so
difficult, how challenging will it be to make a true country and a
true world? We must even liberate God so that He can be a true God.

If we think our work should be easy, then we may fail. The path we
are on is not easy at all. We must understand what lies ahead of us
and act on it. Satan created divisions in each level. Even within the
individual, Satan divided our mind and body.

He became self-centered, unlike God. Satan has been centering on
himself and going one way, but we are sacrificing our own selves and
families for the higher levels. When Satan reaches the higher levels,
he becomes a self-centered dictator. But if we sacrifice ourselves
for the highest level, we be- come the center of the world of true
love. Satan's domain vanishes; he cannot exist here anymore. Every
step is a step of indemnity. Who caused the fall of mankind? Satan
and mankind's parents. The Messiah, True Parents, must indemnify all
the different levels and restore the fall. Originally, God wanted to
do this through established Christianity, centering on the country of
America. But since that failed, the Unification Church has had to go
a 43-year course. All of my nerves and cells have been focused on the
thought: "I exist for the sake of the restoration of the
universe!" Thus I have been willing to put in everything I have
for the sake of the restoration of the universe.

There are no two bordering countries that still love each other.
Do you think Canada and America are in great love?

France and Germany? Who made them turn against each other and
created borderlines? And who put up the walls? Satan did. Here in
America, there are many properties, and each property is owned by an
individual, surrounding himself with great big walls. Who made this?
God didn't! If God created this country, then the true person should
be free to come in and out and walk about as he pleases.

Protection Through Indemnity

Everywhere I go I take down walls so that between two nations
there comes unity and harmony. I am trying to make every one of us
contribute, not depend on somebody else, or ever be indebted. I want
to change poorer people so that they don't want to live off the
richer people, but instead, can have the heart to want to even give
something to richer people. If all the people from South America come
to contribute to America, for example, would America despise them?
No, it would welcome them.

Many people want to take advantage of the Unification Church. Even
though they are going to come to drain us or do some damage to us,
still we should welcome them. Obviously we need a boundary between
what is good and evil, but we want to broaden this boundary, make it
larger and larger, so that more and more eligible people can come in.
God wants to bring everything into unity; that's His nature. Satan
wants to divide it up so that he can have easier control.

We are really fighting on every frontier. We have to protect
ourselves, and also we have to broaden and embrace everybody else.
Satan exists where things are divided. So when unity is accomplished,
then Satan simply just does not exist, because he has no influence.
We must understand that paying indemnity is something we must do in
order to protect the higher level. To protect my family, I have to
sacrifice. After sacrificing, always something bigger is gained.

Those who do not want to pay indemnity actually end up only in one
place, which is with Satan. We must meet and win over the challenge
of the satanic world, not co-exist with or be pushed by it. Why do we
emphasize indemnity so much? Because that is the greatest weapon to
safeguard us from Satan. We make a boundary that Satan can't
penetrate. Then Satan will have to retreat and we will advance and
broaden.

Indemnity is for protection, but there's no such thing as
protecting myself while not caring about others. Protection means
that if we are going to protect 10 or a 100 people, then we must bear
the indemnity for that 10 or 100. Otherwise we cannot hope to offer
protection.

In protecting someone how do we make Satan give them up and go
away? Things can't be done the easy way because Satan won't give up.
Not only is our blood stained, but also Satan has a lien on our
blood. We must connect with and grow our roots in God. We inherited
the wrong blood lineage; to cut off our fallen lineage and reconnect
to God, we need indemnity.

We know that Satan indeed has a lot of influence, a lot of
territory. We must have a clear understanding of how to win through
indemnity and not only want to be liberated by God, but also liberate
God through these steps.

I am always pushing to create an ever-bigger area where Satan
cannot reach. Satan's side will have to say, "Oh, I cannot fight
against him because he is going to win anyway!" Finally, there
will be only Satan and me -- and beside me there is God. Beside Satan
there is nobody.

Melting Pot of Love

Only four years ago, in 1984, I proclaimed from Danbury that
communist imperialism in Russia will perish. All the world experts
disagreed, but on December 7th of the same year Red China proclaimed,
"We are going to give up communism and go on our own way."
Now it is eight years since I proclaimed the International Highway,
and China says it makes great sense and wants to work together on the
project. Wherever I have a meeting, there will be crowds gathering,
wanting to meet me.

How about in Moscow? At Washington Monument, 1976, I proclaimed
the Moscow rally. On June 29th of this year, Russia declared the
separation of the political party from the government administration.
It was always one before. That means that the dictatorship has come
to an end, and Russia cannot help but follow the democratic system.
In America and the world everybody is wondering what is going to
happen. There is little hope or plan ahead of them. But Korea is
hopeful because of the Olympics; it really has a future under the
guidance of Rev. Moon.

I have a great melting pot of true love that is 100 times more
effective than the American melting pot. God will also come into that
pot and live with us! How great a melting pot that is. Here's a big
umbrella of true love, and everybody seems to come under that
umbrella. Who holds that big umbrella? God.

When God created, He created all things for their sake. He
invested everything He had, including His being eternal, unchanging,
unique. True love is to invest completely and intensely, so the
concept of living for the sake of others came into being here.

We see all things are created in God's image, male and female.
Then what was the purpose of my birth? Why was man born? For the sake
of woman. When American women begin to represent true womanhood or
humankind, and when both men and women are standing in the true love
center, then in your home your husband is king, and you are the
queen. As long as there is true love in that family, you are the
queen, living for the sake of others because you are ready to give
everything you have for the sake of the family.

Now all of us, men and women, want to pursue true love. If man
goes one way, woman goes another, and God is right in be-tween, there
will always be division in the three and no hope to come into unity.
To have unity, when both the man and woman would like to own God
first, if the woman happens to be owning God, then she must own Him
for the sake of her husband. "For your sake, I am going to own
God first." For man, the same thing goes. In being selfish, we
lose everything. Without a solution to selfishness, there will be no
unity.

From this point on, we will begin to really notice the treasure,
the happiness of bringing everything into unity and creating the
ideal world. The greatest thought is this idea of protecting and
living for the sake of others, not living for the sake of myself.

Direct Yourself to Heaven

These are the two questions: what is the essence of love, and how
does it come to me? God just does not come; He established the line
of vertical love and must follow it. Yet we cannot think about the
vertical line without also thinking of the horizontal line. The
vertical line has to intersect the horizontal line at a right angle
or else it will always be unstable. The fact that vertical love
exists means horizontal love also must exist and form a perfect
square. Most ideal is a form with equal distances and right angles.
Here in Unification Church we say this is a four position foundation
centering on true love.

Standing vertically is the ideal. Look at trees, nature,
mountains, and man; they all stand upright. Look at all the animals;
they go kind of horizontally, don't they? But man is the only being
which is an exception, enjoying the privilege of walking upright.

In the Korean language, you write from up to down. Here in
America, you write from left to right. Koreans also write
horizontally, but when they do, they start from the right and go to
the left. The western world begins from the wrong side!

We know God has mind and body because we have mind and body. But
even when we go to spirit world, though God is there, we cannot see
Him. Our body is God's dwelling place, the Bible says. Therefore we
not only need the true God in a vertical way, but also we need the
true God in a horizontal way. True Parents fulfill the horizontal
position for true God. No matter what role God had to take in our
past fallen history, now that True Parents are on earth, God can take
His original position, and everything will be solved now. We have to
cut away everything, and go back to the original root.

Heaven is not some place; it is within my restored mind and body.
Thus both heaven and hell are within yourself. You are the traffic
policeman and can command yourself to go to heaven or to go to hell.
This is a very dangerous job in a way, because you have to deal with
a lot of force, power, and traffic coming at you. If you don't direct
well, the world and yourself can go to pieces.

Do you think the Korean sparrow makes a nest one way, and the
American sparrow makes it another way? It is the same, no matter
where, right? Who taught them? God. God designed and implemented
evolution. That evolution occurred somehow naturally without God is
false. Just as a small bird knows how to build a nest, we were
supposed to know how to build true love relationships. But because of
the fall, we are even lower than the animals. We ought to be better
than the salmon who, born in a small tributary of a river, tours
around for four years and finally returns to the same spot after a
journey of about 5,000 miles.

Forefather of True Love

How close are you to God now? You have great reason to be thankful
to God and True Parents for solving and teaching you these
complicated things in such a clear way. Money, power, knowledge, and
material may be important, but love is the thing out of which all
things start to be. All the spirit men in spirit world, including
your ancestors, now are listening to me speaking in such a clear way
and will eternally thank me for finally clarifying everything which
was so confusing even to the spirit world. You are the first ones who
listened to me. Through you, many spirit people must learn in the
future. How grateful do you feel each minute, even though your lives
may be hard?

Now we know more clearly every day that this is the reality. We
must learn about true love and with absolute confidence enact it and
liberate God. I feel my responsibility and goal in life is to
liberate God with my own hands. Since I am your True Father, then you
must inherit that goal and tradition from me. I am working like crazy
to liberate God, even though people say to me "Why do you have
to work so hard?" You must say, "Father, I will bring this
present of true love and plant it in my home town or country in order
to liberate all the people, all the country and even God." Once
that is planted in Korea, then I will be the forefather of true love.

Returning to one's home town is not a simple or insignificant
thing at all. Behind my saying, "Return to home town,"
there is tremendous work. Only after solving all the complicated
questions of history can you return to your homeland. Therefore,
going to one's homeland is the greatest event. The present I bring
with me is the concept of liberating even God, as well as the clan,
country, and world.

You cannot do everything yourselves. The one thing you can do is
get hold of and engraft to me so firmly that we live and die
together. These are wilderness days. Don't be distracted -- don't be
like the Israelites, who lost Moses. If you do that, then we cannot
go to the ideal nation. This is the only way you can follow God's
dispensation. Never let loose of me. You have to follow me
absolutely.

The unity of mind and body can only be achieved through true love.
When our mind and body are one, there is immediate resonance. As long
as you become one with True Parents who are in the center of the
universe, you are also at the center of the universe. When that
happens, nobody has to tell you whether you will end up in heaven or
hell because you will know in your minds already. You must work and
live like crazy -- anything short of that is just not enough. Can you
pledge to carry this out? God bless you all.

Our Standard of Devotion

The Public Way and Private Way11/11/81, Belvedere

How can you say you are dedicated if you have restored only two
people in five years? If you had married five years ago you would
probably have at least two children by now. When we are really
dedicated, we should each be able to bring one person a month and
twelve people a year. Even at that rate, in one lifetime of
witnessing we could each restore only 600 people. How can we save the
world by restoring only 600 people? Even the leaders have brought
only a small number of people. If some members bring only two people
in five years, they may bring only 20 people in a lifetime. How can
you expect to go to heaven if you bring only 20 people in your
lifetime?

If you say you don't like the public way, you are retreating to
hell. Only if you go the public way are you doing good work and going
the way you are supposed to. Have you ever stopped to think that
after you have done home church in America you will go to other
countries, and even the spirit world, and do home church?

You can feel that in the future, millions of people will act
according to your direction.

Are you going to go into the arena of home church now? That's the
ring in which you fight the championship bout. You must truly know
the public way, for once you turn to the private way you will
decline. You always have to check yourself in this matter.

Leaders' Conference4/16/80, World Mission Center

Yet if you are going the right path, even when temptation comes,
if you don't change your love or your focus and just hang on to it
until the end, then you will surely win. You will see. Perseverance
is the quality we need. Then God's Will will be done. Father's wish
will come true and everything will be fulfilled.

Victory of Home Church (Morning Address)1/1/82, World Mission
Center

Everything depends upon how much you serve and set the indemnity
conditions. Parallel with those conditions, your blessings will
descend upon you. All your ancestors and the ancestors of the people
in the neighborhood as well will come down to your home church area.
When your effort exceeds the level of effort made by anyone
previously, Satan will pack up and retreat from your area. You will
see that those people who were adamantly opposed to you one day will
change, miraculously, the next day. Those who continue to give you a
hard time will receive instant judgment from spirit world. You will
see this with your own eyes. After their chastisement from spirit
world, those persons will change, too. During my lifetime, I have
seen many instances of this, too many to describe. The same things
will happen to you in your home church area.

Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View12/30/79,
Belvedere

Do you have your Cain area? Are you Cain or Abel to your home
church area? The fact that I have entrusted you with home church
means I have approved you as an Abel. It's up to you to work and
pray. You never know when the result will come; as long as you work
hard now, the result will definitely come. How beautiful it will be
when the result comes unexpectedly.

Seeking the True Master11/29/81, Belvedere

How much have you devoted yourself? One year, two years, ten
years, twenty years? By doing so, you attract the attention of God,
and He has to look at you and come down to you. True love is the
major theme by which you connect one woman, one man, one family, two
families, a hundred families, 360 families. When one new person is
linked, you rejoice over his birth as the new true child of God. What
a joy it is to see the emergence of a new child of God. With this in
mind, how can you neglect to go out every day and night? When this
movement of love is spreading out to the worldwide level, the Kingdom
of God is bound to appear.